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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-02-04 05:43:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-02-04 05:43:50 +0200 |
| commit | 6ccce2801c820d2607c6feab4a55352991db378f (patch) | |
| tree | 2d7b5147d490e836bae14c96a3e4a448f4a89591 /doc/gawk.texi | |
| parent | af2b98170ecf3127d8d5ce3e5e3a17c9f4c56059 (diff) | |
| parent | 37aba870575eccc0f19ed08eea2efe0640de8c64 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'gawk-4.1-stable'
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 06aacd3b..fab29487 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -4049,7 +4049,7 @@ care to search for all occurrences of each inappropriate construct. As @itemx @option{--bignum} @cindex @option{-M} option @cindex @option{--bignum} option -Force arbitrary-precision arithmetic on numbers. This option has no effect +Select arbitrary-precision arithmetic on numbers. This option has no effect if @command{gawk} is not compiled to use the GNU MPFR and MP libraries (@pxref{Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic}). @@ -30867,7 +30867,8 @@ one extra bit of significand. By default, @command{gawk} uses the double-precision floating-point values supplied by the hardware of the system it runs on. However, if it was -compiled to do so, @command{gawk} uses the @uref{http://www.mpfr.org, +compiled to do so, and the @option{-M} command-line option is supplied, +@command{gawk} uses the @uref{http://www.mpfr.org, GNU MPFR} and @uref{http://gmplib.org, GNU MP} (GMP) libraries for arbitrary-precision arithmetic on numbers. You can see if MPFR support is available like so: |